Sites and Monument Record: Carriden Parish Church (SMR 287)

Description
New church of 1909 in a simple Romanesque style with an aisled nave, chancel and apse. Four stage tower with a pyramidal stone spire at the W end. Session house forms S transept has a baronial stair-turret. Snecked rubble. Interior. 6-bay with half-round timber ceiling. Baptistry chapel in widened section of N aisle, with mosaic, half domed apse, entered under a chevroned arch. Oak pulpit, lectern, precentor's box & communion table. Stained glass in apse of 1912.

Object detail

Site type
building
church
war memorial
stained glass - see separate entry
Site status
Listed B
Site history notes
Carriden Parish Church was designed by Glasgow Architect - Peter MacGregor Chalmers (1859-1922). Local builders and quarrymasters, Peattie & Wilson, used white Kinneil stone. Foundation stone laid by Duke of Hamilton (13th Duke) in October 1908 and opened in September 1909. The cost was £6,100. This included the cost of £600 for the 120 foot Tower. The Bell, which dated from 1674. made by Peter Oostens of Rotterdam, was brought from the old Church.
Site conservation date
1909
Site grid ref
NT 0190 8128
Conservation status
Edwardian

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